I love this style of fufu. In my first apartment, my neighbor across from me was a Ghanian family, and they taught me how to make this. My stew of choice with fufu is a chicken stew with green plaintain, chilis, onions, and collard greens. So good! I always found fufu pretty easy to make. For anyone who makes pate choux paste by hand without a mixer will find this a dream to make!
@@BENKAY_REAL_ESTATE Hon, it's not just Nigerians that eat fufu. Before countries were formed in Africa, they were regional Kingdoms that spanned vast territories, and before the 20th century, the Eastern part of Ghana, Togo, Benin, and the Western part of Nigeria was one Kingdom, with the same cultural profile. It's very common for Eastern Ghanians to eat fufu. You can find about a dozen TH-cam channels by Ghanian cooks featuring fufu. Eastern Ghanians prefer plantain fufu, and sometimes elephant root fufu over the common fermented cassava fufu of Nigeria.
Oh my gosh this is amazing. I'm African American and I've been so afraid to cook African dishes due to my fear of messing them up. Videos like these are so helpful for those displaced so far from our roots.
I am not African, but I can safely say that you should never be afraid to cook new foods. Making new foods is always tough, and is an art in itself! It might not be amazing the first try, but you should never expect to get it perfect the first time. That’s why it can take multiple tries to get a recipe to your liking, and every time I bet you’ll become more confident and better each try. You got this💕💕
There's absolutely nothing wrong with making mistakes, you don't have to be African to enjoy these wonderful flavors too so just take a breather and don't associate the food with the place and just make it how you want When you cook the only thing that truly matters is if it tastes good to the people eating it, I hope you're able to enjoy it soon❤
Worse case scenario you support cassava farmers. So it's pretty much a win win. I hope we can both try this dish on opposite sides of the world together. It'll be fun.
I'm native American and cook foods from all over the world! I like cooking foods my tribe ate as it's a bit of a connection with my ancestors, though lots of our recipes have been altered due to supply issues, being lost to time, and forced assimilation. Serving up improvised and imperfect versions of the food my people ate when we were one is such a rich experience. I especially love cooking for others and being able to spread my culture. It doesn't have to be perfect at all, it's like writing a love letter. The passion and appreciation is what's important, messing up a dish is part of the process
I love fufu!!! My Ghanaian friend let me try so many different dishes. It always touched my heart and made me feel so good!!!! God bless Ghana, y’all are a special people!!!!
Thank you! I’m German and my husband is too. He had friends from Africa when he lived in Frankfurt main and they would make fufu. Now he always tell me about it because he loved it so much! I’ll surprise him with that 😅
ooh is there a product I can buy from an indian store that's cassava? or do you make it from the tuber like she has? I live in a place with lots of indian people so we have indian supermarkets.... I don't know where else I could find cassava otherwise
In Brazil we make soup out of it or boil and fry it like French fries with salt. It tastes so much better than fries. We also make sagú out of it. It’s a dessert made of little tapioca starch balls with red wine and sugar. And also cheese balls are made of tapioca as well.
I saw you at wedding on August 5th and you look fabulous in person. I wanted to say hi and tell you how much you've influenced me with your contents...but i chickened out 🙈
@@lindadelalifiasam5878 would you describe your process as "constantly whipping or beating the batter with wooden spoon"? Or "constantly stirring and beating it" until it becomes fluffy? As far as the English goes, the term "driving" doesn't describe any cooking action. So I'm feeling confused by the fact you said the closest word you could find is driving. Driving is an English word, but it is not a cooking term and it doesn't describe any cooking action. It makes me wonder is there something unique about the way you are "stirring" and "whipping" the mixture that I cannot detect by watching ... something critically important that cant be noticed by seeing the movement of your hands on camera? Or is it simply that driving is the closest literal translation but we actually do have a fitting word (like beating the batter or whipping the batter with a wooden spatula). So perhaps the Ghana word (in the case of cooking), has a fitting substitute word, but not a direct translation. when I keep re-watching your video I just think it looks like what we call "whipping or beating by hand" maybe stirring and whipping constantly with a circular lifting motion, similar to whipping or beating eggs with a fork. Driving certainly doesn't equate to a cooking term in English. Perhaps you could describe it in the English word that best apply, then tell us you call this a word in Ghana 🇬🇭 that translates to driving. I'm curious because I'd like to try to make this. We have Casaba and plantain in our market.
@@kaleidoscope8743Beating would probably be the best term but i could understand why she used the term driving because of how you have to do it. The action being performed is pounding it with your wooden spoon, towards the side of the pot In sort of stirring/gathering motion. I hope that is descriptive enough.
Beautiful! But nothing more mesmerizing than Watchung the rhythm of rhe pestle and mortar action! That process just amazed me when I was a kid living in Ghana and Togo😮 I was SURE the ladies would get their hand POUNDED! 😊 I miss miss MISS the SMELLS and taste of Africa😊❤
Intresting way of making it, i usually chop the plantain, cassava and taro or sweet potato and cook them first in saltwater, then blend them when they are cooked, i'll have to try this method and see if it tastes diffrent.
Amazing! In Puerto Rico we make it too and called it “majado de yuca” or mashed yucca. Also, interestingly enough a “fufu” (in our colloquial Spanish) means to bewitch someone. Many blessings!❤
That looks amazing! I live in a small city and have only tried Eritrean and Ethiopian food so far which was so delicious, I can't wait to try food from different African countries!
We call that folding it in where I come from & I have been wanting to try this for a whole now & so far this is the easiest recipe tutorial ever! Thank you so much God bless❤
@@TheSarahskaninchen beating is more like whisking liquids very fast. Raw eggs for example. Or liquidy cake batter. For thicker materials like dough or cold butter, it gets 'folded' in. Has more to do with how viscous the ingredients you're using are
It’s amazing how American indigenous foods as well as African foods made a swap with each other over the earlier centuries…unfortunately through the Slave Trade. There versions of FooFoo on both sides of the Oceans. A lot of the casaba and many other root based foods also can be found in both present day cultures. I lived in Puerto Rico and was so amazed on the history of the Races that made up our Island.
@@Sene_-wf2py ok but it doesn't change the truth...the slaves in Puerto Rico and the Taino eventually mixed foodshey brought from Africa...Cote D'Ivore, Present Day Nigeria, Ghana etc. also after the Haiti Revolution more integration of cultures s. Believe what you like . Where are you from?
@@Sene_-wf2py PS corn meal or Maiz came from the Americas thanks to the Indigenous Peoples. It did not exist in ancient times before the discovery of he Mew World.
Thank you for this. I've wanted to try fufu for years and it always seems complicated but this seemed much less daunting than the other videos I've seen. Looking forward to trying.
Ive only had Nigerian style fufu, so im not sure what the difference is, but i quickly fell in love with Nigerian food after trying out a restaurant in my old city. Ive been looking for a recipe for the one stew they made. it was baller
I’m Arab and it kind looks like (Asida or Aseeda ) it’s very well known in Yemen . But we made it with boiling water , salt and wheat flour ( could use different type though ) . It’s very traditional meal , we eat it with meat or chicken broth and some time we eat it with Fenugreek ( حلبة ) or with chili sauce (Zhug , سحاوق) and Ayran (حقين ) . It’s amazingly delicious , could be served everyday and special occasions . And other type is Harish ( الهريش ) could be serve with chicken or meat broth , or honey. But should try Yemeni Zhug or cheese Zhug , I swear you will be hooked for life .
Thank you for this step by step guide! I have seen fufu online, but it feel intimidating as a foreigner. I will save this video until I can get the ingredients to try!
Ive never had this, it looks super good! If I get the opportunity I may try and make some myself :0 dont have plantains or anything near me tho so probably have to order some
I love this style of fufu. In my first apartment, my neighbor across from me was a Ghanian family, and they taught me how to make this. My stew of choice with fufu is a chicken stew with green plaintain, chilis, onions, and collard greens. So good! I always found fufu pretty easy to make. For anyone who makes pate choux paste by hand without a mixer will find this a dream to make!
That's an oddly great comparison, in terms of technique lol
Ghanaian teach you how to make fufu with stew lol are you for real we use soup to eat fufu please we are not Nigerians
@@BENKAY_REAL_ESTATE Hon, it's not just Nigerians that eat fufu. Before countries were formed in Africa, they were regional Kingdoms that spanned vast territories, and before the 20th century, the Eastern part of Ghana, Togo, Benin, and the Western part of Nigeria was one Kingdom, with the same cultural profile. It's very common for Eastern Ghanians to eat fufu. You can find about a dozen TH-cam channels by Ghanian cooks featuring fufu. Eastern Ghanians prefer plantain fufu, and sometimes elephant root fufu over the common fermented cassava fufu of Nigeria.
@@BENKAY_REAL_ESTATE LOL This VERY video is a Ghanian cook demonstrating how to make plantain fufu. 😂😂
Oh my gosh this is amazing. I'm African American and I've been so afraid to cook African dishes due to my fear of messing them up. Videos like these are so helpful for those displaced so far from our roots.
I am not African, but I can safely say that you should never be afraid to cook new foods. Making new foods is always tough, and is an art in itself! It might not be amazing the first try, but you should never expect to get it perfect the first time. That’s why it can take multiple tries to get a recipe to your liking, and every time I bet you’ll become more confident and better each try. You got this💕💕
There's absolutely nothing wrong with making mistakes, you don't have to be African to enjoy these wonderful flavors too so just take a breather and don't associate the food with the place and just make it how you want
When you cook the only thing that truly matters is if it tastes good to the people eating it, I hope you're able to enjoy it soon❤
Mistakes is how you learn what not to do, don't ever be afraid to make mistakes when cooking. It's all a process and takes time and practice. :)
Worse case scenario you support cassava farmers. So it's pretty much a win win.
I hope we can both try this dish on opposite sides of the world together. It'll be fun.
I'm native American and cook foods from all over the world! I like cooking foods my tribe ate as it's a bit of a connection with my ancestors, though lots of our recipes have been altered due to supply issues, being lost to time, and forced assimilation.
Serving up improvised and imperfect versions of the food my people ate when we were one is such a rich experience. I especially love cooking for others and being able to spread my culture. It doesn't have to be perfect at all, it's like writing a love letter. The passion and appreciation is what's important, messing up a dish is part of the process
I love fufu!!! My Ghanaian friend let me try so many different dishes. It always touched my heart and made me feel so good!!!! God bless Ghana, y’all are a special people!!!!
What does it taste like?
@@jomc20 I didn't see any seasoning. Does it have seasoning or is it served completely plain?
@@puggirl415plain! The food it’s accompanied by is the flavouring.
@@hopeadler507 Too bad we only saw the fufu being made not the stew to go with it. No context for lack of seasoning.
Thank you 🇬🇭🥰
Okey I will try
Thank you, great recipe and directions.
looks so good.
Wow i learnt something totally new today
Thanks
Thank you! I’m German and my husband is too. He had friends from Africa when he lived in Frankfurt main and they would make fufu. Now he always tell me about it because he loved it so much! I’ll surprise him with that 😅
Looks so yummy
Looks amazing 🥰🤤
Its looks so Good iwat too try it❤
Very super cook fufu
This looks so good!
so cool!
Love how informative and delicious ur videos are 🤍
This looks really good!
Thanks for sharing!
This looks so delicious
I want to try fufu so bad! The texture looks absolutely divine!
It looks really yummy...
Yummm I love your channel ❤❤❤❤
Looks delish.
Looks yummy, i want to try
super i will try this ❤
Love your pg thank you soooo much been looking for more natural recipes like these 💕💕💕
Fufu looks like absolute texture heaven! I'm excited to make it when I have the time!
Omg, this looks so good 🥰😍
Perfect way to make fufu in abroad. Nice job sis👏👏👏👏👏👌👌👌💃💃🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
It’s beautiful!! I❤
that looks so goooooood
Wow it looks amazing like cooking polenta. 💗🙏🌺
Wow you did really really well
In south india we eat boiled and smashed cassava with chilly and coconut as single meal with pickle or chicken or meat curry....yummy too
ooh is there a product I can buy from an indian store that's cassava? or do you make it from the tuber like she has? I live in a place with lots of indian people so we have indian supermarkets.... I don't know where else I could find cassava otherwise
In Brazil we make soup out of it or boil and fry it like French fries with salt. It tastes so much better than fries. We also make sagú out of it. It’s a dessert made of little tapioca starch balls with red wine and sugar. And also cheese balls are made of tapioca as well.
@@sophronielcassava its mostly will available in vegetable section, in the name Tapioca.both are same
th-cam.com/video/QKIw7D-8GvE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=L3mejTRODMjXT5RU jus for a reference from a random vedio
@@mio469 yes; exactly " ethakka pazham" - 🍌
That was an excellent tutorial, I almost feel like I can do it! I mean I probably can’t but I’ll give it a try 😊
I saw you at wedding on August 5th and you look fabulous in person. I wanted to say hi and tell you how much you've influenced me with your contents...but i chickened out 🙈
Awww don’t be shy; I had a number of people walk up to me at that wedding and I love meeting people. Next time if you see me say hello 😊
I thought u have to soak the cassava. Do u have to or not
@@olamideadeoye1999Ghana fufu doesn’t need soaking 😊😊😊
@@lindadelalifiasam5878 would you describe your process as "constantly whipping or beating the batter with wooden spoon"? Or "constantly stirring and beating it" until it becomes fluffy? As far as the English goes, the term "driving" doesn't describe any cooking action. So I'm feeling confused by the fact you said the closest word you could find is driving. Driving is an English word, but it is not a cooking term and it doesn't describe any cooking action. It makes me wonder is there something unique about the way you are "stirring" and "whipping" the mixture that I cannot detect by watching ... something critically important that cant be noticed by seeing the movement of your hands on camera? Or is it simply that driving is the closest literal translation but we actually do have a fitting word (like beating the batter or whipping the batter with a wooden spatula). So perhaps the Ghana word (in the case of cooking), has a fitting substitute word, but not a direct translation.
when I keep re-watching your video I just think it looks like what we call "whipping or beating by hand" maybe stirring and whipping constantly with a circular lifting motion, similar to whipping or beating eggs with a fork.
Driving certainly doesn't equate to a cooking term in English.
Perhaps you could describe it in the English word that best apply, then tell us you call this a word in Ghana 🇬🇭 that translates to driving.
I'm curious because I'd like to try to make this. We have Casaba and plantain in our market.
@@kaleidoscope8743Beating would probably be the best term but i could understand why she used the term driving because of how you have to do it. The action being performed is pounding it with your wooden spoon, towards the side of the pot In sort of stirring/gathering motion. I hope that is descriptive enough.
it’s so interesting to see how fufu is made! i’ve never had it but it looks heavenly
I really want to try and make this! It would be so delicious with a flavorful soup
Awesome. I tried Fufu for the first time today with your video, and it was delicious and soft. From 🇯🇲.Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful! But nothing more mesmerizing than Watchung the rhythm of rhe pestle and mortar action! That process just amazed me when I was a kid living in Ghana and Togo😮 I was SURE the ladies would get their hand POUNDED! 😊
I miss miss MISS the SMELLS and taste of Africa😊❤
Intresting way of making it, i usually chop the plantain, cassava and taro or sweet potato and cook them first in saltwater, then blend them when they are cooked, i'll have to try this method and see if it tastes diffrent.
Ohhhh that looks so satisfying. It's like a dumpling
fufu looks so tasty i just want some
this looks absolutely delicious omg i wanna try it so bad
Seems so much like a choux pastry! Cool!
Amazing! In Puerto Rico we make it too and called it “majado de yuca” or mashed yucca. Also, interestingly enough a “fufu” (in our colloquial Spanish) means to bewitch someone. Many blessings!❤
Haha
Awesome, it comes from your African ancestors who landed there.
Oh my god that texture makes me so happy :,)
fufu is such a cute name and fufu looks so yummy I wanna try it sometime !
That looks really good I have never had fufu but I love eating things with different textures and flavors
That looks amazing! I live in a small city and have only tried Eritrean and Ethiopian food so far which was so delicious, I can't wait to try food from different African countries!
My God I haven't heard of this dish in ages. Thanks for the solid memories.
now i wanna try to make it, looking good!
Love your channel ❤❤❤
really looks like japanese mochi which makes sense because both are composed mostly of starch. looks delicious!
The traditional method of one person pounding while another folds the dough is the same.
interesting @@solitaire10
Thank you. I've always wanted to try this.
Thank you so much, I’ve been looking for a good step by step to try this delicious looking dish!
When I was on cameroon we ate fufu every day and I loved it!!
So interesting, thanks for sharing
I've always wanted to fufu, and now i can with your help. Thank you! 😊
I've been curious about fufu for a while. Thankyou for making a clear vid on the steps of making it. ❤
Nice! I've never had fun or learned how to make it but it is nice that you show us in this video.
I finally made this. It was delicious 🥹🥹🥹🥹
Groundnut chop and fufu or Domoda and fufu🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤😋😋😋 💯Heaven! Greetings from Australia 🤠
Omg it look so easy of course mine wasn’t so easy I’ll try it again 😂 thanks for sharing
I've never tried it but it looks so good
I can’t wait to try this .. thank you for sharing
I have never eaten fufu but it looks amazing!
That looks so good……………🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤 It looks like it’d be such a good texture in the mouth
I didn't know it was this easy to make fufu, Imma make some for Christmas
We call that folding it in where I come from & I have been wanting to try this for a whole now & so far this is the easiest recipe tutorial ever! Thank you so much God bless❤
I really want to try this
Well done cousin
the way fufu is said is great
In English, it would technically be called folding.
But driving the fufu is more vigorous than folding. ❤
I was gonna say, in my cooking class they called it folding
I thought in english it would be called beating it. But i am Not a native speaker so this is interesting
@@TheSarahskaninchen beating is more like whisking liquids very fast. Raw eggs for example. Or liquidy cake batter.
For thicker materials like dough or cold butter, it gets 'folded' in. Has more to do with how viscous the ingredients you're using are
"fold in the cheese, David!" "What does that mean?!"
@@TheSarahskaninchen it is very similar. But driving/folding has more precision than beating.
It’s amazing how American indigenous foods as well as African foods made a swap with each other over the earlier centuries…unfortunately through the Slave Trade. There versions of FooFoo on both sides of the Oceans. A lot of the casaba and many other root based foods also can be found in both present day cultures. I lived in Puerto Rico and was so amazed on the history of the Races that made up our Island.
Lies
@@Sene_-wf2py ok but it doesn't change the truth...the slaves in Puerto Rico and the Taino eventually mixed foodshey brought from Africa...Cote D'Ivore, Present Day Nigeria, Ghana etc. also after the Haiti Revolution more integration of cultures s. Believe what you like . Where are you from?
@@Sene_-wf2py PS corn meal or Maiz came from the Americas thanks to the Indigenous Peoples. It did not exist in ancient times before the discovery of he Mew World.
Wow, interesting 🤔
Id love to try this some day! :D
Thank you for this. I've wanted to try fufu for years and it always seems complicated but this seemed much less daunting than the other videos I've seen. Looking forward to trying.
🤩 I’m dying to try this
fufu is the cutest name for such a cutu dish ngl
I've never had this but it looks AMAZING oh my god
This is better than the other recipes I’ve seen from other countries. No disrespect, but I really want to try this one!🎉
reminds me of tun cornmeal in Jamaica here
I know people are saying that folding is the best action but folding is gentle and driving is the direct twi translation (my mother tongue) in english
Ive only had Nigerian style fufu, so im not sure what the difference is, but i quickly fell in love with Nigerian food after trying out a restaurant in my old city. Ive been looking for a recipe for the one stew they made. it was baller
Check @SisiYemi, she's Nigerian and has great recipes.
Also Nigerian fufu is made from only cassava
I've never seen this food, but it looks absolutely delicious! Is the texture at all like dumplings? That's one of my favorite food textures!
It looks good. I like fried plantains
I’ve never had it, but I would love to try it! Can’t even imagine the flavor 😂
I want some!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤
Just about to make this tonight wish me luck
Oooh, with soup? That soup looks dang good and the fufu is so smooth
I’m Arab and it kind looks like (Asida or Aseeda ) it’s very well known in Yemen . But we made it with boiling water , salt and wheat flour ( could use different type though ) . It’s very traditional meal , we eat it with meat or chicken broth and some time we eat it with Fenugreek ( حلبة ) or with chili sauce (Zhug , سحاوق) and Ayran (حقين ) . It’s amazingly delicious , could be served everyday and special occasions . And other type is Harish ( الهريش ) could be serve with chicken or meat broth , or honey.
But should try Yemeni Zhug or cheese Zhug , I swear you will be hooked for life .
I want to try this soo bad 🤤
Thank you for this step by step guide! I have seen fufu online, but it feel intimidating as a foreigner. I will save this video until I can get the ingredients to try!
This looks so tasty... I dont think ill be able to make this but thank you so much for sharing! Gosh i really wanna try this amazing food one day
This always looks SO GOOD but I have yet to try it
Not quite sure if any shops in my town would have plantains or ewt, but I really wanna try making fufu, thank you ❤
as a dominican i need to get into this asap. going to get the ingredients today!!!
Loved everytime she said fu fu ... I use that word for smoking 😊
Ive never had this, it looks super good! If I get the opportunity I may try and make some myself :0 dont have plantains or anything near me tho so probably have to order some
Ive always wanted to try plantain. Maybe this is my sign to get cooking.
I want to try this so badly